Deville v. State

*221RAKER, Judge.

In this case, we must decide whether home detention1 qualifies as “confinement in a correctional institution” under Maryland’s enhanced penalty statute directed at habitual criminal drug offenders. Maryland Code (1957, 1996 Repl. Vol., 2001 Supp.), Article 27, § 286(d)2 of the Controlled Dangerous Substances law, provides that a defendant who “has been convicted twice” of similar offenses under § 286(b)(1) or (b)(2) and has served a “term of confinement of at least 180 days in a correctional institution” is subject to a prison term of no less than twenty five years. We shall hold…